I got my own crib! Finally!

I must confess, as much as I love my family, practically love them to death, I can't stand living with them. My family is huge and I'm not exactly used to having too many people in my personal space (i.e. where I eat, sleep, and take dumps and showers). The only people I don't mind having in my personal space are my parents because they have been in my personal space ever since I can remember. And even then, I prefer being alone in my own house dealing with my own business, having nobody on my back.

For me living alone without roomates is not considered boring or lonely. For me, it's a matter of independence, self-sufficiency, and above all privacy. In my new crib, the only other living beings shacking up with me will be my plants (and potential critters, but not for long because I'll kill them... assuming I gather up the courage to actually do it... ughhh)

Aside from that, more good news! Among all the bad news I get paid to read for 8:30 hours, five days a week, it's worth mentioning that little tidbit (which some people might actually consider as really bad news tantamount to the Apocalypse, mind you)

World Pride parade in Jerusalem was confirmed for September 21! Hurray!

At work I have to go over the comments to articles to make sure they don't contain any slander, incitement and foul language. So basically, for the article about pride in Jerusalem (which I translated) I read so many negative comments about how homosexuality is sick and it's an abomination parade and that the GLBT community should be ashamed and they're going to Hell and they're infested with AIDS and all that bullshit. And this, from members of a supposedly open-minded society that supports freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. Not only that, most of them are obviously religious Jewish fanatics, but they're Jewish nonetheless. And you would think that out of all minorities in the world, the Jews would be the ones to support a movement for tolerance and diversity, one that fights discrimination against a minority group. After all the discimination that Jews suffered from and are still suffering from today, you would think they would know better than to talk shit about yet another group that is constantly being discriminated against.

But nooooo! Religion got to their heads and made of them devoted homophobes. I am ashamed to say that many members of my very own beloved family are those very same devoted homophobes I am condemning. I won't mention any names, you know who you are. For the sake of everything that is holy, please open your eyes and start dealing with the real enemies of the Jews and Israel who will bring about our destruction. And it is not the Gays and Lesbians who fight for their existential right to have the same rights as everyone else, but the Iranian madman and his nuclear aspirations, Hizbullah, Hamas, Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades, Fatah, Al-Qaeda, anti-Semites, need I go on?

God! It's not complicated! Have a toke and chill the fuck out. Go dance at the parade even, you might actually enjoy it. Pass the jizzoint!

Peace, love, and safe sex :-D

Yesterday, I actually got around to checking out some apartments. Actually only a couple and both were tiny, but really chill, sufficient for one person and I'm not exactly what you may call obese. Try underweight. My problem is I got a lot of shit. I mean, here I don't have a lot, because I only brought a couple of suitcases. My problem is that I got boxes back in Canada waiting to be shipped over here. So basically, I don't need any furniture because the apartments are fully furnished. But what am I gonna do with all my books and my dolls and my statuettes and my photo albums and all the other crap that has the sole purpose of sitting around collecting dust? There is no space in the apartment for all that. Seriously, that's how small the place is. But like I said, it's just what I need. A couple of plants here and there, and it's totaly liveable, even cosy.

Anyway, I have other places to check out before I sign anything so I won't rush it and I won't rack my brains about it until I've utilized all my resources and options.

Now to the FUN part of yesterday!

I went to see Funk'n'stein and Funset in concert at a club thingy called Barbi. Totally incredible kickass show. I haven't had this much FUN since the Aviv Geffen concert I went to last summer. MC Karolina is an absolute Goddess, she's so adorable and so laid back and down to earth, and connects with the crowd and feeds off its energy and the crowd in turn feeds off of her energy. It was divine! Her songs are so cool because you can like chill to them and you can dance to them too. Funk'n'stein was also pretty good, and the combination of both bands was absolutely tentilizing, I was licking my fingers.

Speaking of which, I'm hungry so I'll go eat now.

Peace, love and lovelovelovelove loooove, lovelovelove PEACE! 

The following entry was originally written as an email I sent to myself because the comp I was using does not have a browser that supports my space. Whatever the fuck that means...

Not cool. Only lame!

I am staying at my uncle's place in Tel Aviv because I got a job at Ynet (which kicks ass) but getting an apartment here is harder than I expected (which sucks ass). I've been from paper to paper, from internet site to internet site, and from actual place to place around town looking for ads and still nothing.

Most of the people I call tell me "it's no longer relevant," which I suppose is Hebrew business jargon for "fuck off." In any case, if I don't find an apartment quick, I will officially lose it. You have no idea how messy this place is. The bedroom I sleep in looks as if even organizing it is not gonna help, it'll still look like a dump. The kitchen is big but it's filled with so much crap, you don't know what to do with yourself. And don't even get me started on the bathroom. I don't even shower that often anymore because I feel as if I'm gonna come out of there more dirty than when I came in.

Above all, everything from the living room to the upstairs computer space, from the clean to the dirty laundry, absolutely EVERYTHING smells like dirty old shoes. I have one explanation for that and it's that there's an overwhelming majority of guys living here. That's another complaint of mine. Too many guys, only one lady besides myself (the mother of the family), not enough privacy, makes me too uncomfortable. Even the dog is male, goddamit! And guys have a tendency to wallow in their own stench and not really care.

I probably shouldn't write about what I eat and what I don't eat because I know that if my parents read this they'll literally come over here and bring me back to Canada where they can actually monitor what I consume. Truth is I don't eat that much because the environment I live in does not permit it. They don't even have fruits! I actually miss the days when my mom would come into my room and bring me a fruit salad even after I told her a million times that I didn't want it. Boy, do I want it now!

Where's my mom when I need her? Oh right, she's in Canada. Come to Israel already! The war is over! I knew I'd be helpless without my parents.

Anyways, I'm going to Be'er Sheva on Tuesday because I have a day off from work so I'll try and get as many things done as I can. I'm gonna call up Nefesh B'Nefesh and give them shit for cutting all contact with me, they still owe me cash and actual assistance in finding an apartment. Then I'll call up Bituach Leumi for my medical insurance. Then I'll ask my cousin to lend me a suitcase so I can pack as many cloths and as many soaps and as many fruits in it as I can. Hopefully, I won't need to use any of it, praying to god that I find an apartment ASAP.

Peace, love and strangely enough, as dirty as this place is, I haven't seen any cockroaches... yet.

PS - Update: I got it all under control. They bought food for me because they realized I was disappearing, so we got fruits and veggie shnitzel (the best!), cheeze, cheeze and some more cheeze, and all the good stuff. So I am no longer starving. On Tuesday, I went to Be'er Sheva but it was too hot, my brain was turning to mush and I wasn't in the bitching mood, so I wasn't about to put myself in the situation where I had to call up any institutions and talk tough and flex my muscles because I would have probably collapsed. Still working at Ynet, still looking for an apartment, still not finding anything, still haven't seen any cockroaches. But now it's great because at least I'm using my good old comp so it has a browser that supports my space :-D

There, is that enough?

Alrighty there!

Someone sabotaged my space, wtf?

No need to overdo it, now. Jees...

I say, one day MSN Spaces will look exactly like MySpace. I mean, the layout MSN had previously was just fine. Then it became more and more shitty, and since MySpace is the epitome of shitty layouts, eventually MSN Spaces will experience a similar demise.

Dammit!

So here's my message to the management: Stop imitating MySpace. Resume normal webmasterminding. Because anyways, there will be more people using MySpace than MSN Spaces, because it was here before, and people are too lazy to start building a new space, especially if it has the same shitty layout.

Peace, love and for the definition of a Module, go over notes from Editing Principles 101.